National Poetry Month (That Would Be April)

I know you’re eagerly awaiting the news of who won the March Poetry Contest, but the entries are all really good, and I’m not going to be announcing the winner till this weekend. Sorry! But I do have some other exciting news.

Tomorrow night — Thursday, April 5th — Brazos Bookstore will be kicking off their National Poetry Month festivities with a reception honoring and reading by several local Houston poets. The store will be featuring these authors’ books the whole month.

Guess what? I’m one of them. Wheee!

Come on out Thursday evening at 7:00 for the reading, and stay to buy some books and get them signed by their authors. The book I’ll have available is Barefoot on Marble: Twenty Poems, 1995-2001. I’m not sure yet what all I’ll be reading, but I suspect my selections will be from all three books (the two already published and the one I’m still working on).

What a fun evening at Brazos Bookstore! Thank you to Brazos and Mutabilis Press, and particularly Carolyn and Bob Florek, for a great reading event. And thank you to all my old friends and students and colleagues who came out! Lovely time.